It is time to stand firmly in your power, knowing that you can handle anything.
Take up your sword and cut through any fears, worries, and disappointments so that your true virtue may shine through. With integrity and groundedness, with self-knowledge and honesty, with clarity and knowing that your journey’s next step is about to be taken, continue on your path of heart.
A warrior knows how to act as the journey unfolds. Wait for the signs that will show you the way. Then act from a place of heart. This is where you are today.
The five yang lines trembling and tumbling at the approach of one little yin… – From The I Ching, translated by Richard Wihelm
Five yang lines stacked together revel in their ordered, controlled, clarified mastery of life, life as idea. Suddenly, a coy innocent yin line enters from below, an impulse from nature, life in its utter sweetness and rawness. The yang lines are shaken at the vibrant appearance of yin, while at the same time they are magnetically drawn, their number and order shattered by the encounter.
Richard Wilhelm’s translation of the I Ching reading of hexagram #44, Coming to Meet, cautions: the maiden is powerful, do not marry such a maiden. Deng Ming-Dao, in his interpretation of the I Ching, goes further, naming Hexagram #44 Copulation. He takes us to the depths of human nature itself.
The urge to copulate is nature’s urge that will not be denied; it’s at the heart of nature’s imperative to survive. At that level it is an amoral force. Dress up “relationship” with romance and commitment if you will, but behind the scenes nature exacts its intent; copulation will occur, there will be offspring to continue the species. Nature has no regard for relationship, commitment or childrearing arrangements, it simply wants offspring.
In a recent channeling discussion (linked Here), Saleph pointed out that the disowning of nature—the ape in man—is at the core of sexual abuse. The disowning of the sexual instinct, and lack of respect for its power, has allowed for mass incidences of coming to meet in copulation—completely unregulated and dissociated from consciousness—to erupt in the most historically sacred countries, in the most sacred institutions, as well as in the most sacred place of all: in the family home.
Our distant ancestors were far more advanced at the regulation of this primal energy in their initiation rites and rites of passage. The modern world, having disowned its animal self, revels in a technological self image, with a rational brain machine that can replace all of nature’s parts, or so it thinks. This naive assumption has left the animal in man dissociated from its archetypal roots, as well as from its ego master. The instinct, in such an abandoned, neglected, manipulated state has gone off on its own, preying particularly upon the young. This is not nature’s program but an instinct gone awry, dissociated from even its own archetypal program. Copulation with the young will not fulfill nature’s imperative; it’s not in the archetypal program.
Praying Mantises in a sacred moment of carrying out nature’s imperative… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Love, commitment, and relationship are only possible in a full integration of the sexual instinct with consciousness. Lack of integration leads to splitting, affairs, and the inability to commit. Consciousness must grapple with the fullness of nature’s imperative, but it must also be a worthy conduit for nature’s energy, able to both handle it, regulate it, and join with it in a deeper merging of consciousness, nature, and an other.
Richard Wilhelm also points out that the time of coming to meet is dangerous and yet, at the same time, is the meeting that brings forth new life. With respect to furthering this aspect of nature’s imperative, the door to delivering relationship itself to a new evolutionary birth is opened in full consciousness, offering the opportunity for the union of opposites, in playful cosmic dance, all elements fully present.
Today is the day to set things in motion, to take what one has learned through contemplation and observation and, when the time is right, to apply it as appropriate. It is time to consider the deeper meaning and aspects also of life upon that earth, to still take time for observation and note taking while simultaneously being open and available to advance upon your journey.
Life is not waiting for you. It advances and so should you, but with care, tenderness and kindness for all beings. Consider the self as part of nature yet with access to greater awareness. In so doing you will advance with aplomb!
Observe the self closely as you go about your day. Note how your body feels and moves. Note how your thoughts arise, intrude and what they are. Note how your emotions rise and fall like the tides. Note how your heart reacts or does not react. Note how your senses transmit data, emotions, and experiences.
In all of this observation, realize that you are fully alive and present, a being of vibration and life. Offer the self the additional vitality that you are fortunate, creative, and balanced, noting also what comes to confuse and bedevil you.
Observe and let be. This is a learning day. No action is necessary. Simply take note.
A bowl of strawberry hearts! – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Here is today’s channeled message. May it offer you the guidance you seek as you begin a new week, although every day is new if you care to look at it that way!
